UpFront

What you need to know about the new NAFTA 2.0; Plus: Dave Eggers on reporting on Trump rallies and his new book of satire

0:08 – Congress to pass NAFTA 2.0: The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement

Lori Wallach is founder and Executive Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch (@PCGTW)

0:34 – Author interview: Dave Eggers is an award-winning author of more than a dozen books, founder of McSweeny’s a publishing house based in San Francisco, which produces books and a humor website, and a journal of new writing, Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. He’s co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centers around the world. His new book is a novel The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment. 

1:08 – Behind Vallejo’s Police Killings

Darwin Bond-Graham (@DarwinBondGraha) is an independent journalist who just published a major investigation into the Vallejo Police Department’s killings in The Appeal, titled “In One California City, Police Kill with Near Impunity.”

1:34 – Pacific Gas and Electric Settles with Wildfire Victims

Mark Toney is the Executive Director with TURN – The Utility Reform Network (@UtilityReform).

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